Andrea Nightingale is the Director of the MSc in Environment and Development and a Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the University of Edinburgh. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota and has worked in Nepal since 1987 on questions of development, natural resource management, community forestry, gender, social inequalities and governance. Her academic interests include pioneering work on socio-natures, critical development studies, and methodological work on mixing methods across the social and natural sciences. Presently her most recent work seeks examine the confluence of climate change and violent conflict.